avcodec/bsf: Forbid packet without payload in av_bsf_send_packet

Signed-off-by: Jan Sebechlebsky <sebechlebskyjan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 3b21537d49..6c2c4a7003 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -5900,7 +5900,8 @@ int av_bsf_init(AVBSFContext *ctx);
  * av_bsf_receive_packet() repeatedly until it returns AVERROR(EAGAIN) or
  * AVERROR_EOF.
  *
- * @param pkt the packet to filter. The bitstream filter will take ownership of
+ * @param pkt the packet to filter. pkt must contain some payload (i.e data or
+ * side data must be present in pkt). The bitstream filter will take ownership of
  * the packet and reset the contents of pkt. pkt is not touched if an error occurs.
  * This parameter may be NULL, which signals the end of the stream (i.e. no more
  * packets will be sent). That will cause the filter to output any packets it
diff --git a/libavcodec/bsf.c b/libavcodec/bsf.c
index 9b9ada796c..8e36861f14 100644
--- a/libavcodec/bsf.c
+++ b/libavcodec/bsf.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include "libavutil/log.h"
 #include "libavutil/mem.h"
 #include "libavutil/opt.h"
+#include "libavutil/avassert.h"
 
 #include "avcodec.h"
 #include "bsf.h"
@@ -177,6 +178,8 @@ int av_bsf_send_packet(AVBSFContext *ctx, AVPacket *pkt)
         return 0;
     }
 
+    av_assert0(pkt->data || pkt->side_data);
+
     if (ctx->internal->eof) {
         av_log(ctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "A non-NULL packet sent after an EOF.\n");
         return AVERROR(EINVAL);